i'm the first one.

me showing up to the function as a Luke Castellan defender ready to state my case

My Roman empire is this, my Roman empire is that. Yknow what my roman empire is? Luke Castellan. Bro was rightfully sick of being used by the shitty gods so went to Kronos with hopes of finally being able to be happy to only be used and manipulated by Kronos too. Like I'll say it, I am a Luke Castellan defender

Tomorrow is going to make me cry 😢

🙏Please let them do Percy and Luke right. Don't make Luke just some asshole goofy villian. Please do their bond justice!🙏

luke castellan defender when i was 11 and luke castellan defender now.

luke just wanted a better future for all demigods but he felt just so hurt and so abandoned that he felt for wrong promises and he was so upset that kronos manipulated him easily. he was just an angry and hurt kid who had no idea how make it better but he tried because he didn't want other kids go through what he had to. he was so right about so many things but kronos wasn't going to be a better ruler than the gods, and after all this in his last moments of life the only thing luke said was "ethan. me. all the unclaimed. don't let it happen again" i think his story is a pure tragedy and we shouldn't make him a villain when the REAL villains are the gods.

You will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, catch me defending Fredrick Chase. There is no character I have such hatred for. Because, WHAT DO YOU MEAN, HE LET HIS 7-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER RUN AWAY!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE CHASE’S IGNORED THE CRIES OF THEIR DAUGHTER FOR 3 DAYS AS SHE WAS ATTACKED BY SPIDERS!? Not to mention, in The Lightning Thief, Annabeth says that he sent her his ring along with an “apology” 2 years before the book takes place, meaning that man waited 3 years to get into contact with his daughter!! Even after Annabeth goes back with them in TLT, she’s back on the street again by SOM, fighting her way from Virginia to NYC at age 13. Titan’s Curse is the only time he ever does anything for Annabeth, but even then, it’s mentioned that a) She’s been at a boarding school in New York with Thalia for the school year, and b) They’re moving cross-country without taking her into account. I don’t care if they were nice to Percy and the others when they were trying to get to Annabeth. The Chases’s have an obvious and repeated pattern of not caring about Annabeth, and she has every right to hate them. I do want to say, though, that Chiron might not be her biological father, but he is her dad in every way that counts.

Oh sweet, sweet irony

I don't understand why people are squicked out by Annabeth's crush on Luke. It's normal for kids to have crushes on the older kids in their lives. Who didn't have a kid in their class who had a crush on their teacher? We all knew someone who had a crush on their babysitter. It's normal for her to be crushing on a boy, she's a teenage girl! Having crushes on older people is normal, leave my girl alone!

I desperately need to see a scene at camp where they are accusing Clarisse of being the thief. THE TENSION!! THE DRAMA!!! She has no idea what the fuck their talking about but of course they believe Luke over her cause he's the camp golden boy. I need her yelling at everyone who doesn't believe her! (Dionysus included by the way, she absolutely would yell at him too) AND I want to see her be like "I fucking told you so!" after they find out it's Luke.

AND this would give her such a good reason to hate the trio like we already know she does.

Edit: Erased mention of the show from this post even if it was originally criticism because in hindsight, I want to avoid mentioning it at all due to the boycott.

What makes the Broken Trio (Annabeth, Thalia, and Luke) so impactful is that their bond is in stark contrast to the individual relationships the three share with their real families. Annabeth went thoroughly neglected by her father and absentee mother. The same for Luke, saddled with a mother who was tragically unavailable whether she wanted to be or not, and a father who never stepped in. And for Thalia, she never knew where she stood with her mother. Did Beryl love her daughter for her, or did she love her because she was proof of Zeus' favor. Did she truly care about Thalia--because from a little girl's perspective, she surely couldn't have cared about Jason all that much, trading his life to Hera in order to save her own--or did she just see her as a bargaining chip for immortality? And is that what love is? Later on, the same sentiment would apply to Zeus as well. Did he save her because he cared for her or because he thought she could be brought back to control the prophecy in his name?

All three of these kids were given nothing but conditional love. They all suffered under the weight of their desires to prove themselves to their parents whether out of spite (Luke, and Thalia to an extent) or love (Annabeth), because that was the only way they'd get the gods' attention, let alone their affection.

That's why it's so so important that when they came across each other and decided to form their own family, they chose to break this pattern. Luke stuck with Thalia knowing she was a magnet for danger with a huge target on her back. Thalia ignored Hal and Zoë's warnings, trusting Luke solely off who he had shown himself to be. And both of them looked at Annabeth, knowing she would slow them down--she was seven, how could she not--and decided to bring her along anyway because she deserved better and if her family wouldn't step up, they would.

These weren't rational decisions because family isn't meant to be rational and they're not Athena. They don't want to be. And we see this emotionality reflected in their choices throughout. Ever logical, strategic Annabeth believes in Luke even when she shouldn't because a long time back, he chose her when he didn't need to. There's a million different interpretations of Luke because, let's face it, his character was messy and inconsistent in canon, but what ultimately sets him apart from the gods or titans is a genuine care for his family, even if he stomps all over it at times. For Thalia, even after Luke poisoned her tree, she maintained faith in him right until the last moment on the mountain. Her breaking point was when he hurt Annabeth, leading her to purge all the good parts of Luke from her memory, forcing herself to only think about the betrayal so she could do what she believed was necessary to protect Annabeth. Not that I don't think she made the right call, but I do think this was far more of an emotional reaction than a purely practical one, which is further emphasized by how Percy (the neutral party, the outsider to this family) had to look at Luke empathetically and from both sides to make his final choice (@ruegarding has a fantastic meta on this that you should definitely check out).

Anyway, the point is: unlike the gods, these three did not perpetuate conditional love towards each other. It's essential that they saw each other, hurt and lonely, and chose to care, which is why it hurts so much when that found family breaks, and why it's the central piece that resolves everything in the end.

he's my new obsession. 🧘🏼‍♀️

craziest thing a pjo fan has said holy moly

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The change in Luke’s betrayal from the scorpion was honestly perfect?? Like the scorpion involved planning and intent but I don’t believe that Luke *wanted* for Percy to die. He wanted for Percy to understand and join him. So the show makes so much more sense where Percy ACCIDENTALLY cuts Luke and immediately apologizes and THATS when Luke snaps like

There needs to be more Luke lives and get redemption arc fics. Like imagine the hilarity of him being part of the seven. People making jokes about this being his karma or part of his probation of keep these 7 adhd hormonal demigods on task of saving the world. Percy understanding Luke hatred of the gods(which Luke still has) the hilarity of Leo and Luke meeting.

Wondering if Luke Castellan taking the offer of a Titan to defy the literal gods for his generation and the future generations has the same energy as Bianca di Angelo ignoring the warning of death to get her brother a toy that would hopefully help him understand that she loves him.

Basically “The gods who? My siblings are more important.”